Adrian's waking nightmares are the stuff of real vile, disgusting horror. The visions of rotten corpses, revolting maggots and general death that he experiences while at a friend's house for a barbecue would even make Kevin Bacon's character in Stir of Echoes do a double take. Is he witnessing the horrors of future yet to come, or are his perceptions merely a window to a past long since gone? And if so, whose past?
In Image's new series, Regression, writer Cullen Bunn (from Dark Horse's Harrow County fame) and illustrator Danny Luckert (the dazzling colors are by Marie Enger) have created a modern horror tale for the average everyman whose mind may accidentally possess the uncanny ability to see even that which it would rather not see, and as such they have produced a comic that is as beautiful as it is hauntingly disturbing.
Bunn's writing - especially a scene involving a comic medium who hypnotizes Adrian in order to get to the bottom of his vivid nightmares - is original and clever in the purest way; simultaneously, Luckert's artwork is clean and sharp (and very reminiscent of Image's recently released Plastic). The final page/vignette, an eloquent shot of horrors that Adrian's hypnosis has unleashed, is freakishly alluring.
Regression is the most exciting horror comic that Image has produced in a long time, and a month after releasing such beauties as Plastic and Redneck, that is saying a lot.
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